h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Somebody has started a petition suggesting Jeremy Clarkson for Prime Minister. http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/PMClarkson/

There are 29000 names already. What do you think? Would JC make a good PM? Did Ronald Reagan demonstrate that a good backroom team is more important than the abilities of the man in front of the cameras?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=505788&in_page_id=1770&in_page_id=1770&expand=true#StartComments

If it gets some of the blasted tax off petrol, I'll be happy.

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What that childish boastful show off who started a mid life crisis when he was a teenager and responded by becoming an over the hill Peter Pan?

Well maybe he couldn't be any worse than what we have been lumbered with in recent years and he would probably outdo two Jags Prescott for the number of highly priced utterly wasteful petrol guzzling penile substitutes he could officially run.

Picture the scene:

G8 meeting, all the heads of state arrive in bulletproof limos, Jaguars, Volvos, Cadillacs with platoons of security men swarming everywhere. Up screams the British PM in a Ferrari, handbrake turn in a cloud of smoke before screeching to a halt by the red carpet.

Hmmmm,

JC for PM...
Hamster for Home Secretary?
James May for Chancellor?

And definitely The Stig for Defence!

Who would do transport? The slowest star in a reasonably priced car?

Top Gear Dog, obviously!

it can't get any worse can it!

And Gordon Ramsay for the Ministry of Food?

Done?

Done!

He'd be utterly useless. In fact of all the waste of space celebrities you can think of, he'd probably do the worst job.

Reagan was not the brightest, granted, but he listened to his team - Clarkson wouldn't even have the sense to do that.

sprout

"but he listened to his team" you mean the Klu Klux Klan?

If we're playing fantasy celebrity PMs, surely Stephen Fry should be Prime Minister? Clarkson indeed.....

I would back Clarkson as PM, he talks more sense than some of the muppets in charge at the minute

Strange definition of sense. He's entertaining, and he does it by being an idiot. So I reckon 'twould be amusing, but not constructive.

I would back him. He has no truck with PC-ness. He does his bit for the environment out of the public glare. He talks sense. He doesn't spout BS.

Having been reading his collections of newspaper articles from the past 10 years or so he can see and understand alot of what is going on in this country and the world.

He understands the need for a good engineering base in this country.

He also fully admits that his views have changed since he got a wife, kids and is in his 40's but he still put all the articles that, now, do not follow his views now in there to give a full picture of what he thought back then and what he does now.

No hiding, no changing history, honesty and that's what we need.

Good grief.... I didn't realise anyone was actually *serious*...

No, I don't think anyone is serious. Although I notice the petition has over 30,000 signatures now, which is more than 30,000 votes more than Gordon Brown got to be PM.

"I would back Clarkson as PM, he talks more sense than some of the muppets in charge at the minute"
Agreed and he's a patron for the Help for Heroes charity and has done more for our wounded soldiers than the government has, which has raised him in my estimation